4.5 Interacting with Vivant in PowerPoint

After inserting a Vivant instance in design mode, Vivant is not interactive. You can layout your slide there, but to setup and interact with Vivant, first enter slide show mode (F5). From here, you can interact with Vivant and setup your scene as described in 6.

All Vivant changes and loaded state files are saved within the PowerPoint presentation file itself. Because of this, external state files do not need to kept or passed with the presentation.

As previously mentioned, PowerPoint also has a new ``OpenEye'' menu that is installed by the PowerPoint Add-In. It contains several useful functions to interact with Vivant and PowerPoint.

``Insert Vivant Instance...'' - this simply inserts a new Vivant instance into the presentation as described in Setup
``Convert all Vivant instances to slides and images'' - sometimes it is more preferable to have a static presentation. This menu options converts all vivant instances to images, creating new slides to deal with bookmarks. This can be useful for sharing presentations with people who do not have Vivant.
``Reset all Vivant instances to first bookmark'' - This options will cause each Vivant instance to load the first bookmark when it is first viewed. It is useful for resetting a presentation back to a starting state.
``Customize Key Controls'' - This allows customization of how keys interact with Vivant and PowerPoint (See below).

**Figure 4.3:** The Customize Key Controls dialog

The Up/Down, Left/Right and Page Up / Page Down keys can all be set to advance PowerPoint to the next slide, to advance a bookmark and then the slide (on the last bookmark), or to simply be ignored. These settings are shared among instances of Vivant. These settings are not saved in the presentation, so if the presentation is moved to a new machine, the settings may differ.

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